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Harry Knickle; Don Gray

Adding Automatic Control to the Senior Laboratory Experience Harry Knickle and Don Gray Chemical Engineering, URI ASEE 2008, West PointDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Rhode Island knickle@egr.uri.eduIntroduction and BackgroundOur program has 2 semesters of senior laboratory requiring a total of 4 credits. We alsohad a second semester junior level required data acquisitions and control laboratory for 2credits. The Department decided to drop the junior course and integrate data acquisitionand control into the senior lab courses. One objective was to reduce the credit load.Another objective was to introduce larger

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R. Radharamanan; Ha Van Vo

CAD/CAM and Robotics Applications in Laboratory-Learning Environment R. Radharamanan and Ha Van Vo School of Engineering, Mercer University, Macon, GA 31207-0001, USAAbstractIn this paper, how the design/automation hardware and software and manufacturing laboratory facilitiesare effectively integrated to teach Computer Aided Design (CAD), Computer Aided Manufacturing(CAM), CAD/CAM integration, and robotics with appropriate hands-on experiences in the Biomedical,Mechanical, and Industrial Engineering Programs are presented and discussed. A typical CAD moduledeveloped and taught in Biomedical Engineering includes the use of patient-specific 2D

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Bahram Nassersharif

simulations of virtual models, environments, and processes. The centerprovides a unique laboratory/classroom environment for immersive interaction with models,environments, data, and processes in engineering and the sciences. The center merges teaching andresearch activities into a powerful discovery environment in which faculty and students share a problem-solving tool for exploration of any subject using methods that are impossible in a physical laboratory.The first course that will be implemented in the classroom is our freshman engineering problemsolving/programming course using Matlab.The different phases of design and implementation of this very sophisticated classroom as well as the firstsemester teaching and learning experiences in this new

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Richard J.H. Gash; David Fedroff

on the first day of instruction, students are encouraged to explore how the use ofsupplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) can increase the amount of recycled content in theconstruction of a building. This theme continues as the students are required to develop and implement aplan to optimize the amount of granulated ground blast furnace slag, fly ash, and silica fume that can beincluded in a concrete mixture without adversely affecting characteristics such as strength, stiffness, andworkability. After gathering data through hands-on laboratory testing, the students prepare a reportrecommending an optimal SCM content. This instruction method can fit easily into the existing curriculum of most undergraduatereinforced concrete design

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M.G. Guvench

fact the junior electronics courses (ELE342and ELE343) constituting prerequisites for this course also emphasize design but at a smaller scale andusing discrete BJT and off-the-shelf ICs rather than at the chip level using CMOS technology. Thisemphasis on “design” in our electronics sequence of courses has been implemented starting with an NSFgrant to establish and develop a “Computer-Integrated-Electronics” Laboratory (C.I.E. Lab) in the early1990’s. The concept of “Computer-Integrated-Electronics Laboratory” simply brings computers into theelectronics lab where designs implemented are tested for verification. Availability of PC-basedcomputational and graphics software along with inexpensive circuit simulation tools like “PSpice

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Bassem Alhalabi; M. K. Hamza; Ali Abu-El Humos

Distance Education: Remote Labs Environment Bassem Alhalabi 1 M. K. Hamza 2 Ali Abu-El Humos3Abstract – Since the invention of the Internet, research for [capable] virtual lab experiments has been thetarget of higher education’s distance learning research; however, the very nature of real experimentation(real elements and real instrumentation) was not possible or missing from much of the acclaimed virtual labexperiments. Nonetheless, in the past decade or so, countless scholarly writings asserted the availability of[real] or virtual laboratories that mimic real laboratory experimentations. Within these virtual experiments’infrastructures, the elements of real experimentation- in comparison to conventional laboratories

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Richard B. Mindek

control, and remote I/O.Today, PLC’s are used in all facets of industry, provide a broad range of functions, can be programmedusing a desktop personal computer, and can be purchased for as little as several hundred dollars. Withsuch broad use in industry, wide-ranging application in engineering related fields and availability to usersat all levels, it is imperative that engineering educators provide young engineers with a fundamentalunderstanding of the operation and capabilities of PLCs. This task has recently been undertaken withinthe Mechanical Engineering Program at Western New England College, through the building of a PLCplatform and development of a PLC laboratory. This laboratory is unique in that it is designed to allowstudents to self

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Matt Armstrong; Richard L. Comitz; Andrew Biaglow; Russ Lachance; Joseph Sloop

wellas engineering decision making concepts. Lastly our novel approach to curriculum development allowed for an earlier incorporation of theactual data into the process via ChemCad, the Chemical Engineering software that was used by eachstudent. Typically, use of this software does not occur until later in the design sequence. Background The Friedel-Crafts reaction is used in laboratory synthesis as well as in industry in the synthesis ofethylbenzene and its derivatives as an intermediate to make styrene monomers1. Therefore, this reactionwas a good choice to integrate several different courses. Laboratory experiments conducted during the second semester of organic chemistry generallyillustrate practical

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M. Ali Montazer

sea of everyday chores only to deepen themanager’s skepticism. To counter the trend, the University of New Haven (UNH) andthe Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology (CCAT) embarked on a programwhere faculty/students teams provide technical assistance on modeling and simulation toaerospace parts manufacturers in their quest to become lean.To this end, a Center for Simulation Modeling and Analysis is established at UNH withpartial funding support provided by (CCAT). The Center is fully student-centric: thestudents will be learning the concepts and techniques of modeling and simulation usingthe state-of-the-art software tool in the classroom / laboratory followed by a practicumwhere they will work on actual cases provided by area

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Ismail I. Orabi

Computer-Aided Experimentations usingLABVIEW. Professor Orabi has received a number of research awards from the State of Connecticut andUnited Technologies. He has established two Laboratories: the Materials Testing laboratory sponsored bythe National Science Foundation, and the Engineering Multimedia Laboratory funded by AT&T. He is amember of ASME and ASEE. 7

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. Instructors wrestled with studentfrustration and the reality that good projects were tough to come by and an engineer’s“final design” could always be modified by a client.In 2000, the classroom and the capstone design components of this course began tochange. Planning and Design of Construction Projects continued to consist of two 50minute classroom sessions each week and two three hour laboratory periods per week. Toenhance student achievement of various educational outcomes and better meet the needsof the Coast Guard, the classroom portion of the course expanded its focus to coverlecture topics that can be assigned to six broad categories: 1. Planning 2. Cost Estimating 3. Scheduling 4. Engineering Economics 5. Engineering Ethics

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Elif Kongar; Tarek Sobh

research associate in the Laboratory for Responsible Manufacturing(LRM) at Northeastern University since September 1999. She has also been employed as an Assistant Professor byYildiz Technical University till February 2006. Dr. Kongar is currently an Assistant Professor at BridgeportUniversity. Her research interests include the areas of supply chain management, logistics, environmentallyconscious manufacturing, product recovery, disassembly systems, production planning and scheduling and multiplecriteria decision making.Dr. Tarek M. Sobh received the B.Sc. in Engineering degree with honors in Computer Science and AutomaticControl from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt in 1988, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees inComputer and

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David I. Schwartz

would be lost, a more complexmodel would offer greater insight into how a game changes state. Deciding which game components andstates should contribute (and to what degree) to a score needs further work. 8Finally, educators may wish to introduce mathematical concepts from a game design and analysisperspective. Ultimately, scoring could provide an essential link between theoretical fundamentals andsoftware implementations.7. AcknowledgementsI would like to express my gratitude to the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in Rome, New Yorkfor providing a Visiting Faculty Research Professorship for the summer of 2007 and a subsequentextension grant. Research into wargame design and development methods

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Flexible Pavements, Transportation Research Record No. 1307, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 1991.(5) Robert Brooks (a/k/a: James Matthews) and Carl Monismith, Direct Tension and Simple Stiffness Tests---Tools for the Fatigue Design of Asphalt Concrete Layers, Transportation Research Record No. 1388, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 1993.(6) Robert Brooks (a/k/a: James Matthews), Investigation of Laboratory Fatigue testing Procedures for Asphalt Aggregate Mixtures, Journal of Transportation Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 119, No.4, 1993.(7) Robert Brooks (a/k/a: James Matthews), The Effect of Aggregate Gradation on the

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David A. Gray

and teach them the concepts, emphasizing the language. 3. Ask all faculty and advisors to use the language and concepts when dealing with students, for example, in advising sessions. (In a business that expects to improve, personnel would be told to do so.)It is not complicated. Perhaps in a few years an entire upper-class student body of a college will act asmentors when they shoot back, “Change your process.”David A. Gray, following retirement from AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories, has been an assistantprofessor of engineering at Messiah College since 2000. 51 Craig Gygi, Neil DeCarlo, and Bruce Williams, Six Sigma for Dummies, Wiley Publishing, Inc

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Eileen M. Kowalski; Joe D. Manous

investigation of cognitive learning within the engineering profession is rather new, it hasbeen accepted by other fields of education with the most notable being the study of medicine. Untilrecently, the four-year medical school experience centered around lecture and laboratory work, somewhatsimilar to engineering education, with clinical work occurring primarily during the fourth year. Todaymany medical schools include clinical experience early in the medical school experience because studentshave demonstrated a better grasp of material when they are concurrently studying in “traditional” coursesand experience greater cognitive learning through the combination of clinical (problem-based learning)and lecture activities.1 A similar inclusion of

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Ha Van Vo; Stephanie Rossman; Zsaquez Flucker; R. Radharamanan

ankle motions are similar to the natural motions of thehuman ankle. In the lab, students will analyze the stresses in the inner sockets of rigid and mobile ankles(applying compressive and flexural loading) using the material testing system (MTS) available in theMechanics of Materials Laboratory at Mercer University. 8References[1] Scott M., Ankle Anatomy, Family Practice Notebook.com, 2008[2] Muilenburg, A.L., and Wilson, Jr., A. B., A Manual for Below-Knee (Trans-Tibial) Amputees, 1996 Retrieved July 14, 2007 from http://www.oandp.com/resources/patientinfo/manuals/7.htm.[3] Yachigusa R., Wandering Around Martial Arts, Samurai, A

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Mir M. Atiqullah

laboratory for fabrication of the panels. Bibliography 1. Callister Jr., William D., “Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction,” 7th edition, John Wiley and Sons, 2007. 2. Schwartz, M.M., “Composite Materials handbook,” McGraw-Hill Inc. New York, 1984. 3. Reihart, T.J. et al., editors, “Engineered Materials Handbook Volume I Composites,” ASM International, Materials Park, OH, 1987. 4. Gdoutos, E.E., Pilakoutas, K. and Rodopoulos, C.A., Editors, “Failure Analysis of Industrial Composite Materials,” McGraw-Hill, 2000. 5. Mallick, P.K., “Fiber-Reinforced Composites: materials, manufacturing, and design,” CRC Press

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John Adams; Charles Kochakian

presentations. All three were involved inevaluating the presentations, and every project was awarded either an “A-” or an “A” based onquality of presentation and technical depth. The evaluators all felt that in general the studentswere very enthusiastic, had put in a high degree of effort, and had digested a significant amountof information.A laboratory segment was included to provide the student a greater insight and understanding ofthe electrical engineering principles and concepts that are at the foundation of RFID technology.Due to a limited inventory of hardware and software in spring 2007 the lab experiments consistedof a set of demonstrations rather than a hands-on exercise. Since then a sufficient inventory oftags and readers have been obtained

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Elif Kongar; Paul Kontogiorgis; Nancy L. Russo; Tarek Sobh

Inclusion. in ASEE, EDI 2007 – Diversity in Engineering. 2007. San Juan, PR.[23] Morell, L. Women in Engineering. in ASEE, EDI 2007 – Diversity in Engineering. 2007. San Juan, PR.Biographical InformationDr. Elif Kongar received her BS degree from the Industrial Engineering Department of Yildiz TechnicalUniversity, Istanbul, Turkey, in June 1995. In June 1997, she received her MS degree in Industrial Engineering fromthe same university where, she was awarded full scholarship for graduate studies in the USA. She obtained herPh.D. degree in June 2003. She has been a research associate in the Laboratory for Responsible Manufacturing(LRM) at Northeastern University since September 1999. She has also been employed as an Assistant Professor

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Linda Ann Riley; Charles Thomas

, Tianjin and Qingdao and proposebuilding design criteria for athlete housing facilities to address these hazards.8. Analyze and recommend techniques that allow large populations of people to communicatesimultaneously during the event.4This competition is an excellent venue to bring students that excel in various subject areas together inmulti-disciplinary teams to develop solutions to applied engineering problems. Field Trips to the UniversityAs a component of the partnership, it is important to bring middle and high school students onto theUniversity campus to experience first-hand engineering and science activities and laboratories. In thisrespect, trips have been arranged or are in the planning stages for several collaborative

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Roy T.R. McGrann

) Demonstrate the integration of the elements of modeling and analysis in a CAE design project, and (VI) Prepare a complete design project report. 3The course is structured as two one-hour lectures each week and one 2½-hour computer lab. Thematerial presented in each of the two “lecture” sessions each week is distinct. One session consists ofpresentations of design methodology, engineering graphics fundamentals, kinematic and force analysisof mechanisms, and FEA. The other session consists of Pro/Engineer (Pro/E) training. The trainingsessions and the laboratory assignments are complementary. These training session lectures have beenrecorded for student self-study.Three projects are the

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Dean M. Aslam; Zongliang Cao; Cyrous Rostamzadeh

Innovative Engineering Education Using Programmable Lego Robotic VD Graaf Generators Dean M. Aslam, Zongliang Cao and Cyrous Rostamzadeh* Micro and Nano Technology Laboratory, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI 48824 * Robert Bosch LLC, EMC Department, Plymouth, MI 48170. aslam@msu.eduAbstract The Technology Assisted Science, Engineering and Mathematics (TASEM) learning, with majorfocus on innovations in the use of technology to explain new and complicated concepts rather than oneducation research, goes far beyond the